All Eric Weiner Quotes
- Perhaps it's true you can't go back in time, but you can return to the scene of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and… Crime
- Happiness is not a noun or a verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue. Conjunction
- Compromise is a skill, and like all skills it atrophies from lack of use. All
- Where we are is vital to who we are, Funny
- We can't love a place or a person if we always have one foot out the door. Door
- Reason cannot account for those moments in life that "bewilder the intellect yet utterly quiet the heart," as G.K. Chesterton observed. Account
- Joseph Campbell, who when asked what spiritual practice he followed said, "I underline books." Me too. Asked
- Money matters but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important. So are friends. Envy is toxic. So… Beach
- Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps--located, ironically, at the confluence… Appeared
- So the greatest source of happiness is other people- and what does money do? It isolates us from other people. It enables us to build… Apartment
- There's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and write. Ahead
- [Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well. Chase
- We are shaped not only by our current geography but by our ancestral one as well. Americans, for instance, retain a frontier spirit even though… Americans
- We help other people because we can, or because it makes us feel good, not because we're counting on some future payback. There is a… Counting
- Every country has its cocktail-party question. A simple one-sentence query, the answer to which unlocks a motherlode of information about the person you just met....… All
- As I railed on and on, I became increasingly energied and excited by my own misery and misanthropy until I reached a kind of orgasm… Became
- I've spent most of my life trying to think my way to happiness, and my failure to achieve that goal only proves, in my mind,… Achieve
- Part of positive psychology is about being positive, but sometimes laughter and clowns are not appropriate. Some people don't want to be happy, and that's… Appropriate
- For me, a place unvisited is like an unrequited love. A dull ache that- try as you might to think it away, to convince yourself… Ache
- And yet, over the years I've met so many people like Jared who seem to be more at home, happier, living in a country on… Better